Legal Opinion
Ute Distribution Corporation, a Utah Corporation v. Ute Indian Tribe
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 29, 1998No. 96-4194PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
The Ute Indian Tribe (“Tribe”) appeals the district court's ruling that the Tribe’s immunity was waived by the provisions of the Ute Partition and Termination Act of 1954 (“UPA”) in suits concerning certain tribal assets jointly managed by the Tribal Business Committee and the Ute Distribution Corporation (“UDC”). Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292, this court reverses.
I. BACKGROUND
The Ute Partition and Termination Act of 1954, 25 U.S.C. §§ 677-677aa, was one of a series of Indian termination statutes enacted during a period in which the federal…
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